News from the ancient world
Greece · c. 3200 to 31 BC · 10 stories
New discoveries from ancient Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans, Linear B, Athens and Sparta, temples, shipwrecks, Alexander and the Hellenistic world.
Pottery and a marl foundation layer date the earliest rampart to the end of the Late Bronze Age, the first fortification of that age identified at the city.
A Cypriot stirrup jar of the Late Cypriot III period, about 1200-1100 BC, in a US museum. Photo: Daderot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Greece · c. 2000–1500 BC · Kolona, Aegina, Attica, Greece
Austrian archaeologists found gold pendants, beads and carnelian from what was probably one necklace beside a Middle Bronze Age wall at Kolona, but no tomb.
Greece · 5th century BC · Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
A University of Liège papyrologist identified the fragment in a Cairo archive as part of the Physica, from the only known copy of the poem.
Greece · 6th century BC · Klidi, Samikon, Elis, Western Greece, Greece
Fire-damaged bronze sheets found on the floor of a 6th-century BC temple at Samikon in Elis point to a hall used for storing documents.
Greece · 14th century BC · Hala Sultan Tekke, Larnaca District, Cyprus
Two 14th-century BC tombs at the copper port of Hala Sultan Tekke were reused for generations and held imports from Egypt, the Aegean, Sardinia, India and the Baltic.
Greece · 3200–2000 BC · Rafina, Attica, Greece
The pithos tomb in eastern Attica held two people covered by large stones, and two metres away lay a burnt pit containing a complete equid skeleton.